Hay 4 definiciones de Bill en inglés:

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sustantivo

1An amount of money owed for goods supplied or services rendered, set out in a printed or written statement of charges:he was running up a bill of hundreds of dollarsthe bill for their meal came to $17

foot (or pick up) the bill

Derivados

billable

But if they lose the case, or lose the motion to be awarded costs, this law firm will have to eat untold billable hours for an entire staff of attorneys in a major Federal lawsuit that will likely amount to well over a million dollars.

One guy, my ‘mentor’, ha, told me that certain people wanted to get rid of me, but I had something like the fifth highest billable hours in the firm, so there was hesitancy to do so.

Use of company vehicles is one conspicuous example, or what type of travel and dining are considered billable is another: rigid rules for subordinates, a goodie-bag for the top guys.

Origen

During the Middle Ages a bill was any written statement or list, an early sense that survives in a clean bill of health. The master of a ship about to sail from a port where various infectious diseases were known to be common would be given an official certificate before leaving, to confirm that there was no infection either on board the ship or in the port. See also bulletinThe Old Bill is British slang for the police, with the first written evidence arriving in the 1950s. The original Old Bill was a cartoon character of the First World War, portrayed as a grumbling Cockney soldier with a walrus moustache. The ‘police’ meaning may have arisen from subsequent use of the cartoon character, this time wearing police uniform, on posters in a Metropolitan Police recruitment campaign, and then during the Second World War giving advice on wartime security. Police officers before the Second World War often wore ‘Old Bill’ moustaches, and this could provide another connection.

Origen

During the Middle Ages a bill was any written statement or list, an early sense that survives in a clean bill of health. The master of a ship about to sail from a port where various infectious diseases were known to be common would be given an official certificate before leaving, to confirm that there was no infection either on board the ship or in the port. See also bulletinThe Old Bill is British slang for the police, with the first written evidence arriving in the 1950s. The original Old Bill was a cartoon character of the First World War, portrayed as a grumbling Cockney soldier with a walrus moustache. The ‘police’ meaning may have arisen from subsequent use of the cartoon character, this time wearing police uniform, on posters in a Metropolitan Police recruitment campaign, and then during the Second World War giving advice on wartime security. Police officers before the Second World War often wore ‘Old Bill’ moustaches, and this could provide another connection.

Origen

During the Middle Ages a bill was any written statement or list, an early sense that survives in a clean bill of health. The master of a ship about to sail from a port where various infectious diseases were known to be common would be given an official certificate before leaving, to confirm that there was no infection either on board the ship or in the port. See also bulletinThe Old Bill is British slang for the police, with the first written evidence arriving in the 1950s. The original Old Bill was a cartoon character of the First World War, portrayed as a grumbling Cockney soldier with a walrus moustache. The ‘police’ meaning may have arisen from subsequent use of the cartoon character, this time wearing police uniform, on posters in a Metropolitan Police recruitment campaign, and then during the Second World War giving advice on wartime security. Police officers before the Second World War often wore ‘Old Bill’ moustaches, and this could provide another connection.